Sleep spindles: mechanisms and functions

LMJ Fernandez, A Lüthi - Physiological reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Sleep spindles are burstlike signals in the electroencephalogram (EEG) of the sleeping
mammalian brain and electrical surface correlates of neuronal oscillations in thalamus. As …

Clinical and experimental insight into pathophysiology, comorbidity and therapy of absence seizures

V Crunelli, ML Lőrincz, C McCafferty, RC Lambert… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Absence seizures in children and teenagers are generally considered relatively benign
because of their non-convulsive nature and the large incidence of remittance in early …

Cerebral causes and consequences of parkinsonian resting tremor: a tale of two circuits?

RC Helmich, M Hallett, G Deuschl, I Toni, BR Bloem - Brain, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Tremor in Parkinson's disease has several mysterious features. Clinically, tremor is seen in
only three out of four patients with Parkinson's disease, and tremor-dominant patients …

On the cellular and network bases of epileptic seizures

DA McCormick, D Contreras - Annual review of physiology, 2001 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The highly interconnected networks of the mammalian forebrain can generate a
wide variety of synchronized activities, including those underlying epileptic seizures, which …

Childhood absence epilepsy: genes, channels, neurons and networks

V Crunelli, N Leresche - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2002 - nature.com
Childhood absence epilepsy is an idiopathic, generalized non-convulsive epilepsy with a
multifactorial genetic aetiology. Molecular-genetic analyses of affected human families and …

FitzHugh–Nagumo oscillators on complex networks mimic epileptic-seizure-related synchronization phenomena

M Gerster, R Berner, J Sawicki, A Zakharova… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We study patterns of partial synchronization in a network of FitzHugh–Nagumo oscillators
with empirical structural connectivity measured in human subjects. We report the …

Neurons that fire together also conspire together: is normal sleep circuitry hijacked to generate epilepsy?

MP Beenhakker, JR Huguenard - Neuron, 2009 - cell.com
Neurons that Fire Together Also Conspire Together: Is Normal Sleep Circuitry Hijacked to
Generate Epilepsy?: Neuron Skip to Main Content Advertisement Neuron This journal offers …

Impact of network activities on neuronal properties in corticothalamic systems

M Steriade - Journal of neurophysiology, 2001 - journals.physiology.org
Data from in vivo and in vitro experiments are discussed to emphasize that synaptic activities
in neocortex and thalamus have a decisive impact on intrinsic neuronal properties in intact …

Cellular and network mechanisms of spike‐wave seizures

H Blumenfeld - Epilepsia, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Spike‐wave seizures are often considered a relatively “pure” form of epilepsy, with a uniform
defect present in all patients and involvement of the whole brain homogenously. Here, we …

Deep layer somatosensory cortical neurons initiate spike-and-wave discharges in a genetic model of absence seizures

PO Polack, I Guillemain, E Hu, C Deransart… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Typical absence has long been considered as the prototypic form of generalized
nonconvulsive epileptic seizures. Recent investigations in patients and animal models …